Looking for Christmas and holiday themed western romances? Here are two western romance anthologies of ten stories to set the reading mood for the spirt of the season. The anthologies are available at Amazon.com. Click on the covers for more information.

My contribution to the Prairie Rose Publications’ western romance Christmas collection, A Cowboy Under the Mistletoe, is Silver and Gold. This story is set in South Park, Colorado in 1881. South Park is a grassland valley of about 1,000 square miles nestled at the foot of some of Colorado’s 13ers and 14ers (mountain peaks 13,000 or 14,000 feet in elevation). Placer gold was discovered in South Park in 1859, which brought a ‘rush’ to the area. Just over the Mosquito Mountain Range to the west, Horace Tabor discovered silver in 1878 in Leadville.The largest town in South Park is Fairplay (current population roughly 600). From Denver, it is about 90 miles to Fairplay.

The stories in this anthology are sweet to sensual.

My story in the anthology, Wild Texas Christmas, is A Gift of Christmas Hope. This story is set in the Texas Panhandle at Christmas of 1886. The gist of the story is a well-to-do lady gambler—Lady Sapphire as she’s known in the European gambling circuits—is traveling back home to Texas with a stagecoach full of ‘treasure’ when she encounters a con man on the look-out for another wealthy woman he can charm out of some money. The story unfolds with hints about the woman’s mysterious true identity, what her ‘treasure’ really is, and how the con man, Neal, is a link in her life’s chain of events.